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little lawyer people; I DO NOT OWN YUYU HAKUSHO!
Thankies to those people who reviewed!!! Incidentally Yuki San; ripping out all of my hair and hanging me with it will not be possible as it is 3 ΒΌ inches long, spiky, and blue. Flattered all the same. (The blueness has nothing to do with it, but I think you get my point.) Anyways, on with the story!
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--Hiei sat bolt upright. It was the middle of the night. He had heard Maya call, he was sure of it.
--Elspeth and Kurama were both asleep. No sense in waking them now, he thought. Removing the ward from his Jagan Eye, he sensed for her. She was not far off.
--Running from treetop to treetop. Where was she? He used his eye again.
--He wasn't worth it. She shouldn't have come. She shouldn't risk herself for him.
--She wasn't there. Not where she was supposed to be. Not where he sensed her to be.
--But where.
***
--Elspeth awoke to find Hiei gone. After a quick search, she found him. He was crouched in the fork of a tree, his third eye open and searching.
--"Who was it?" She asked softly. She didn't know what she was talking about. It felt as if a stranger was speaking.
--He leapt into the air and turned to look at her. "Hn. What are you talking about?" He wasn't about to let on to how worried he really was.
"There was someone here, wasn't there?"
"Hn."
--She raised an eyebrow, by now used to his hostile attitude. "I was just wondering."
"Hn."
"All right then, I can take a hint. I'll leave."
--He looked after her for a moment as she went back to the camp. Then he promptly returned to searching for Maya. He felt that if she were killed it would be completely his fault.
By now thoroughly depressed, he went to find Kurama. He usually knew what to do.
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--Her eyes fluttered slightly as she regained consciousness. She was in a cart of some kind, going down a rocky trail. What the.
--Looking down at her hands, she could see that her arms and legs were chained. They had taken her weapons as well. "Shit."
--This really sucked. Not only was she captured; she was also traveling away from Hiei. She could only hope that he had heard her.
--But wait a minute! What was she thinking? It wasn't as if she was helpless here! She played many roles, but Damsel-in-Distress was not one of them.
--Gathering her energy, she pulled the chains with all her strength, trying to break them. Nothing happened. Normally chains like this would break at her touch. They were obviously enchanted. "Shit!"
--Perhaps there was some way she could still reach him. 'Hiei!' No answer. "Shit!!!!"
--There was someone approaching. A man. An extremely tall man.
--He had to be the tallest (and thinnest) person she had ever seen, and that's saying a lot.
--He was laughing at her. Speaking to her in a language she did not understand. She wanted to scream. To shout at him to stop speaking in gibberish. But when she opened her mouth to speak, she found that she could not make a sound.
--This was a nightmare! It had to be! She felt trapped. More to the point, she was trapped.
--Oh no.
***
--They had been searching for days. It was as though Maya had disappeared off the face of the earth. Poor Hiei.
--He was getting more depressed every day. Not sleeping, hardly eating. It seemed that before long he would waste away to nothing.
--'No.' Elspeth thought grimly 'I won't let that happen. We've come this far and I won't let him die like this.'
***
OK, that was a little shorter than I intended. I finally got Celest to shut up (I think). So the next chapter should be coming soon.
The reason it took so long in the first place was that I was grounded from the computer for reasons even I don't understand.
Anyone who reviews gets chocolate pudding!
Thankies to those people who reviewed!!! Incidentally Yuki San; ripping out all of my hair and hanging me with it will not be possible as it is 3 ΒΌ inches long, spiky, and blue. Flattered all the same. (The blueness has nothing to do with it, but I think you get my point.) Anyways, on with the story!
***
--Hiei sat bolt upright. It was the middle of the night. He had heard Maya call, he was sure of it.
--Elspeth and Kurama were both asleep. No sense in waking them now, he thought. Removing the ward from his Jagan Eye, he sensed for her. She was not far off.
--Running from treetop to treetop. Where was she? He used his eye again.
--He wasn't worth it. She shouldn't have come. She shouldn't risk herself for him.
--She wasn't there. Not where she was supposed to be. Not where he sensed her to be.
--But where.
***
--Elspeth awoke to find Hiei gone. After a quick search, she found him. He was crouched in the fork of a tree, his third eye open and searching.
--"Who was it?" She asked softly. She didn't know what she was talking about. It felt as if a stranger was speaking.
--He leapt into the air and turned to look at her. "Hn. What are you talking about?" He wasn't about to let on to how worried he really was.
"There was someone here, wasn't there?"
"Hn."
--She raised an eyebrow, by now used to his hostile attitude. "I was just wondering."
"Hn."
"All right then, I can take a hint. I'll leave."
--He looked after her for a moment as she went back to the camp. Then he promptly returned to searching for Maya. He felt that if she were killed it would be completely his fault.
By now thoroughly depressed, he went to find Kurama. He usually knew what to do.
***
--Her eyes fluttered slightly as she regained consciousness. She was in a cart of some kind, going down a rocky trail. What the.
--Looking down at her hands, she could see that her arms and legs were chained. They had taken her weapons as well. "Shit."
--This really sucked. Not only was she captured; she was also traveling away from Hiei. She could only hope that he had heard her.
--But wait a minute! What was she thinking? It wasn't as if she was helpless here! She played many roles, but Damsel-in-Distress was not one of them.
--Gathering her energy, she pulled the chains with all her strength, trying to break them. Nothing happened. Normally chains like this would break at her touch. They were obviously enchanted. "Shit!"
--Perhaps there was some way she could still reach him. 'Hiei!' No answer. "Shit!!!!"
--There was someone approaching. A man. An extremely tall man.
--He had to be the tallest (and thinnest) person she had ever seen, and that's saying a lot.
--He was laughing at her. Speaking to her in a language she did not understand. She wanted to scream. To shout at him to stop speaking in gibberish. But when she opened her mouth to speak, she found that she could not make a sound.
--This was a nightmare! It had to be! She felt trapped. More to the point, she was trapped.
--Oh no.
***
--They had been searching for days. It was as though Maya had disappeared off the face of the earth. Poor Hiei.
--He was getting more depressed every day. Not sleeping, hardly eating. It seemed that before long he would waste away to nothing.
--'No.' Elspeth thought grimly 'I won't let that happen. We've come this far and I won't let him die like this.'
***
OK, that was a little shorter than I intended. I finally got Celest to shut up (I think). So the next chapter should be coming soon.
The reason it took so long in the first place was that I was grounded from the computer for reasons even I don't understand.
Anyone who reviews gets chocolate pudding!
